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Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

I have a bad sleep cycle. I go to bed about 10PM because I am so tired and wake up around 1:30 to pee and can't get back to sleep for awhile. Then I wake at 4AM and don't get back to sleep for awhile and finally get up around 6AM. I know how to blank my mind and breathe, rather than think, so I dont think it is insomnia. It persists. I think I need to go to a sleep clinic to see if I have apnea, but I think it is a messed up internal clock. Also, it has nothing to do with drinking, I dont drink that often. Anyone have sleep problems?

DrugstoreCowgirl · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

I have sleep problems. I take a melatonin, OTC sleep meds, and a very small type of valium that was prescribed for my sleep problems. I'm worried about how I'll be able to sleep in Korea as I doubt I'll be allowed to bring my rx with me, although I hear you can get otc meds and melatonin at the black market.

CeleryMan · Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Location: Seoul

Stress?

climber159 · Joined: 02 Sep 2007

I know that I sleep much better if I exercise on a regular basis, eat fairly healthy, and don't eat just before going to bed.

D.D. · Joined: 29 May 2008

Chet Wautlands · Joined: 11 Oct 2008

Don't drink any fluids for at least three hours before bed. Make sure you use the washroom right before going to bed. Have some white noise, like a fan, in your room. Make sure your room is perfectly dark and that the sunlight cannot wake you up.

Sleep makes a big difference!

seoulsister · Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Location: International Network

I have trouble getting to sleep but this year I've been using 'Magic Sleep'. It has worked wonders for me, I set the Magic Sleep for 15 minutes and I have never yet been awake to hear the end of it.

http://magicsleep.net/

pocariboy73 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003

I have a sleep problem so I take Diprivan. Just ask your local anesthesiologist about it. Works really well.

Straphanger · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Chilgok, Korea

Halcyon? Ambien? The old Tryciclics? Yeah. They've got it. And they'll give them to you, for the asking! (not a joke)

DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP · Joined: 28 May 2009 Location: Electron cloud

I had insomnia for two years 2005 - 2007

Docs had me on a combo of (get this) xanax, ambien and buspar, enough to knock out a silverback gorilla. Didn't do a thing to me...

I'd even go and lift lift weights for an hour and then run for an hour until exhaustion and THEN take my drug combo - no sleep... In August of 2007 I was in Spain and recorded 30 days with no sleep other than the occaisional hour or two here or there... I was like a living ghost...

Swaer to God - I started doing a yoga for beginers dvd at home and after the 3rd time I did the 45 min workout I've not had insomnia since...

Must have exorcised soemthing for me. Also helped me emotionally / psycologically get rid of some pent up memories / stuff...

Maybe incorporate some yoga into your schedule... worked for me and is easy too....

KYC · Joined: 11 May 2006

I've had very irregular sleeping patterns. Sometimes, I can't go to sleep no matter what. After taking OTC sleeping aids, I usually end up sleeping for 2-3 hours a day. This can last for weeks. Then there are periods of time when I have no difficulty sleepign at all. I can sleep for 8+ hours and wake up and still feel liek crap.

I dont think it's stress because during the times I can't sleep I had nothing to be stressed about.

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

I have the opposite problem, I sleep too much. I can't stop sleeping. I'm starting to think if there is something wrong...

phoneboothface · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Korea

When I was overweight I slept way too much.

If I am stressed, I don't sleep well at all.

I need to eat well like 60% of the time to sleep well.

Do you exercise enough?

Recent weight gain / loss?

How's your life in general? Any big issues? Seriously.

If I'm not stressed and workin out regularly I sleep like a babyyyyyy.

Good luck.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

Kurtz · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Location: ples bilong me

Thanks to being woken up so many times by my neighbour, I usually wake up at 3am. Sometimes it's earlier. Lately I stay away for maybe an hour and if I wake up next at 5am I'm happy. That usually means 6 hours sleep.

Last year I was on sleeping pills as I was waking up at 1am fully awake, and not able to go back to sleep again. This went on for 2 months straight.

People without sleep disorders just can't imagine what it's like.